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Watch or read interviews with Aotearoa New Zealand artists – ranging from contemporary jewellers to sculptors, designers, painters, photographers, and more, talking about their works and methods.
Artist Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutū, Pākehā) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost experts on raranga (weaving) and a master weaver herself. She is known for combining Māori techniques and materials with contemporary multimedia. Watch her daughter Kerry Lander collaborate with Maureen whil installing Aho Huna, Aho Whai | Threads of Connection in Toi Art.
This video is the last recording made with senior Māori artist Matt Pine a few months before his death in 2021.
Takapau is the centrepiece of Mataaho Collective’s show Te Puni Aroaro, a showcase the ever-changing nature of customary textile practices.
Raewyn Atkinson filmed ‘I too am in Paradise II’ over 10 months, recording the life cycle of an organic installation made in her Wellington garden.
Hīnaki are skilfully made forms used as eel traps. They are baited and then placed in a river’s current, or weighted down on the riverbed where the eels enter the inverted openings and can’t escape. Wellington artist Matthew McIntyre-Wilson talks to Mātauranga Māori Curator Isaac Te Awa about learning from the hīnaki in our collection.
Natalie Robertson describes the photographs in her series, ‘Tātara e maru ana – The sacred rain cape of Waiapu’ as visual documentation, but they’re also poetic and lyrical.
Artist Dane Mitchell explains the role of the intriguing elements in his installation ‘Iris, Iris, Iris’.
In 2019, Dame Robin White invited a small team from Te Papa to visit her on location in Lautoka Fiji as she completed That Vase, a masi (Fijian tapa) made with her collaborator Tamari Cabeikanacea.
Artist Bill Culbert created 'Daylight flotsam Venice' (2013) and 'Drop' (2013) as part of his exhibition at the Venice Biennale, where he represented New Zealand in 2013. Here, he installs the work for their first exhibition in New Zealand at Te Papa.
In in Pursuit of Venus [infected], Lisa Reihana uses costume carefully to construct the encounters between European and Pacific cultures. She has been exploring how costume creates character throughout her artistic career. One of the earliest examples is Wog Features (1990). Watch an excerpt here.
Lindah Lepou talks about being a fa’faafine designer, her spirituality, and the evolution of Pacific and Māori couture.
Jewellers Lisa Walker, John Edgar, Warwick Freeman, and Alan Preston discuss their work and inspiration.
Lisa speaks about the meanings behind 'Lisa Reihana: Emissaries', the logistics of exhibiting, and making time-based digital art.
“There’s a repositioning for me of bringing things out of the everyday and positioning them as something that’s very sacred.”
See rare footage of Tony Fomison at work, captured on glorious Super 8 by New Zealand experimental film-maker Martin Rumsby.
‘People don’t always know how to respond to art, they don’t know if they have to read the text or not.’
Curator Sarah Farrar talks with Bill Culbert about his work VOID, 2006, made in collaboration with the late artist Ralph Hotere, and commissioned for Te Papa.
Auckland-based painter Gretchen Albrecht talks about the process of creating her work ‘In a shower of gold’ (2011), and about how the history of her own work sustains her now.
Nike Savvas talks to Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga about her work, Finale: Bouquet, on display in Toi Art until Jan 2020.
Panellists from science, health, education, and arts backgrounds explore how the relationship between the arts and health can offer diverse and dynamic settings for expressive restorative, educational, and therapeutic benefits.
